Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" ...
Mel Gibson’s “muse” is on the path to sainthood. Pope John Paul II this week beatified Anna Katharina Emmerick, a 19th-century German nun whose mystic visions inspired Gibson’s gory depiction of the ...
VATICAN CITY – Pope John Paul II yesterday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ’s suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of ...
Mel Gibson’s “muse” is on the path to sainthood. Pope John Paul II this week beatified Anna Katharina Emmerick, a 19th-century German nun whose mystic visions inspired Gibson’s gory depiction of the ...
Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer to sainthood, including Austria’s last reigning emperor and a German nun whose graphic visions of Christ’s suffering helped inspire the ...
The Catholic Church beatified a 19th-century German nun who inspired Mel Gibson in making “The Passion.” After the death of Anna Katharina Emmerick in 1824, grisly visions of the torturing of Jesus ...